The Southern Poverty Law Center Oozes into the lobbying business, is advertising for a Director of Government Relations

Building managers in state Capitols around the Southeast would do well to instruct their maintenance staffs to stock up on gloves, mops, buckets, slime removal equipment, extra disinfectant and perhaps installing shower stalls for use by the Capitol workers who can’t go home during the day to clean up.

You read correctly. The open borders, SPLC hate mongers are advertising for a Director of Government Relations. This will be a real hoot.

One can only imagine the stampede of race-baiting, open borders Marxists preparing their resume for transmission to what has become known to many as the “Poverty Palace” in Montgomery.

Advice to the prospective applicant: Make it clear on top of the page that you will happily and dutifully fight any immigration enforcement and “smear today, smear tomorrow and smear forever” in search of donations to help SPLC founder Morris redecorate El Rancho Dees’ –again – to get an employment interview

Oh, to be a fly on the wall for the hiring interviews.

Having been defeated in numerous state legislatures on immigration enforcement – including Georgia’s – and left to smolder on the sidelines while pro-enforcement activists see effective and productive enforcement laws put in place each year, the charlatans at SPLC will soon have an out-in-the-open lobbying effort.

As a long time denizen of the Gold-Domed Georgia Capitol, I am delirious with anticipation and excitement at the prospect of dealing with SPLC lobbyist-critter in any committee hearing on the immigration legislation coming in the 2012 Georgia Legislative session. Controlled by the GOP. That has passed meaningful immigration enforcement-related legislation every year since 2005. Including this year.

That has to hurt professional pride, certainly the leftist agenda and likely the reputation among the open borders crazies who depend on the endless smears and direction from the SPLC.

I am reminded of the first time I had dealings with the SPLC mob. I wanted to compare Morris Dees to the late TV Evangelist Jim Bakker. But alas, his former partner, Millard Farmer, had already done that, “He’s the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker of the civil rights movement…though I don’t mean to malign Jim and Tammy Faye…” Bless their now departed hearts.

I wanted to write that I see Dees as “a fraud and a con man.” But in 1996 well-known writer Stephen Bright beat me to it in Harper’s magazine.

Or “Dees is a Fear monger, Profiteer and Hypocrite”…nope, already been done – Paul Hall, Managing Editor, the in Midpines, California.

From the in suburban Washington, D.C., editorial ”Lump of Coal” on Morris Dees and the SPLC in December 2003: “…a bunch of slick, parasitic hucksters who live high on the hog by raising money on behalf of needy people who never see a dime of it.”Rule of law, pro-American state legislators should prepare for the sure to come salvo of “hate-speech” smears from the Che Guevara t-shirt-clad SPLC lobbyists when there is actual discussion of an equal application of the law, protecting American workers and driving the hordes of illegal aliens out of the U.S.

From the Carroll County Star News.

“Is it more irresponsible that moderate Republican Martha Zoller offers up wildly absurd excuses for Kemp’s defiant dereliction of his duty as governor – or that Republican voters remain silent? And how is Republican Kemp any better on illegal immigration than Democrat Joe Biden?

Readers of all descriptions need to know that there is an ignorant attitude and potentially dangerous talking point on illegal immigration circulating under the GOP-ruled Gold Dome and in the Establishment political class. Some elected officials and trusted “conservative” commentators are telling all who will listen that the “don’t worry, it’s not an invasion” invasion at our southern border is “a federal problem.”

Looking back to last session, it is educational to know that multiple bills were passed in the state Senate that would reward and encourage illegal aliens in Georgia.

It is equally important to remember that Georgia is home to more illegals than green card holders and more than Arizona.

When pressed by voters who find the courage to broach the topic with their own elected public servants, many state legislators can be heard responding “there is nothing we can do about illegal immigration on the state or local level!”

This bizarre nonsense should be firmly challenged by voters. To speed that agenda along, while the General Assembly is in session in the coming months there will be specific examples in this space of how treacherous and preposterous this “it’s not our job” attitude really is. As usual, names will be named.

For now, consider the reality that at least one Georgia politician has clearly acknowledged he has the power to address the matter. We should remember all the way back to 2018 when Gov. Kemp was candidate Kemp and recall his campaign ads that led with his solemn promise on what he would do about the crime problem generated by illegal aliens. Kemp promised to go after what he referred to then as “criminal illegals” and to create a public database of that group in Georgia. He pledged to end sanctuary city policies and to work to pass state legislation that would speed up the system that puts illegal aliens into the federal deportation system.

Here are some of Brian Kemp’s exact words from five years ago in describing the promised “Kemp Track and Deport Plan.”

“As governor conservative businessman Brian Kemp will create a comprehensive database to track criminal aliens in Georgia. He will also update Georgia law to streamline deportations from our jails and prisons.”

Brian Kemp’s criminal alien database summary:

Aggregates data from state, local and federal law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies.
Tracks the number of arrests, convictions, deportations and categorizes the crimes committed by criminal aliens.
Destroy silos and provides new law enforcement with sophisticated tools to track organized crime, gang, cartel connections…
Creates valuable data for lawmakers to develop common sense legislation that curbs illegal immigration in Georgia.
Includes opportunities for partnership with President Trump and local universities.”
Readers paying attention may have noticed that not only has Kemp ignored every part of the above promises, but that to this writer’s attentive knowledge, he has not mentioned illegal immigration in Georgia since 2018.

On the topic of bizarre nonsense, please also consider the lengths to which at least one Kemp acolyte has gone to concoct an argument for defending the governor, now in his second term.

Republican radio show host explains Kemp’s refusal to honor his 2018 pledge on ‘criminal illegals’

Republican stalwart and influential Gainesville radio show host Martha Zoller (WDUN- 9-11 AM weekdays and online) says illegal immigration has increased so much that Brian Kemp had to abandon his campaign promises on “criminal illegals” and ending sanctuary cities in Georgia. She has promoted this idea more than once on the air and says discussing Kemp’s betrayal is “wasting time.”

Zoller, a Kemp appointee to the state school board, has repeatedly expressed her irritation on-air with this writer for failing to forget Gov Brian Kemp’s many detailed promises on addressing “criminal illegals.” A former Kemp staffer, she says “he had to change his tactics” (because there are so many illegals). She has promoted this idea more than once on the air and says discussing Kemp’s betrayal is “wasting time.”

For those who need a recap, Talker’s Magazine 2023 Woman of The Year Martha Zoller is advising her trusting audience that Biden’s open borders have apparently made ending illegal sanctuary policies in Georgia, creating a public database of “criminal illegals” and sending legislation (“Brian Kemp’s Track and Deport Plan“) to the General Assembly an outdated, non-priority concept.

Sanctuary city policies are already illegal under at least two state laws. Georgia’s governor is not enforcing them.

So, closing questions: Is it more irresponsible that moderate Republican Martha Zoller offers up wildly absurd excuses for Kemp’s defiant dereliction of his duty as governor – or that Republican voters remain silent? And how is Republican Kemp any better on illegal immigration than Democrat Joe Biden?

The above column was published in the November 13, 2023 issue of the Carroll County Star News.